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'''Janis Lyn Joplin''' (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American blues-influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter with a distinctive voice. Joplin performed on four albums recorded between 1966 and 1970 – two as the lead singer of San Francisco's ''Big Brother and The Holding Company,''[https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19800/m1/#track/5] and two released as a solo artist. Joplin was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
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'''Janis Lyn Joplin''' (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American blues-influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter with a distinctive voice. Joplin performed on four albums recorded between 1966 and 1970 – two as the lead singer of San Francisco's ''Big Brother and The Holding Company,''<ref>[https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19800/m1/#track/5 Show 41 - The Acid Test: Psychedelics and a sub-culture emerge in San Francisco. (Part 1)]</ref> and two released as a solo artist. Joplin was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
  
 
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'''IT:''' Is management a problem for you?<br>  
 
'''IT:''' Is management a problem for you?<br>  
 
'''Z''': It's a problem for the manager.</blockquote>
 
'''Z''': It's a problem for the manager.</blockquote>
<div align=right>–From interview in [[wikipedia:Underground press|IT]], No7, 1977 March: [[Zappa]]</div>
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<div align=right>–From interview in [[wikipedia:Underground press|IT]], No7, 1977 March: Zappa</div>
  
<blockquote>[[Biography|Frank Zappa]] is dead. The obituaries have been published. The ones I read were full of peculiar caveats and qualifications. Despite Zappa's this and despite Zappa's that, he was someone, well, relatively important, even quite, even very. A mass of contradictions, he was wise and he was foolish, conformist and outrageous, Italo-Armenio-Californian freak-businessman, condescended to by Cockneys, taken seriously by Czechs and the American State Department. I read, too, about cultists visiting the tomb of [[Jim Morrison]] in Pere Lachaise. I knew Jim Morrison slightly, saw a bit of him, not long before he blew a gasket getting into a hot bath. Most of the dead popstars courted their own deaths: ''Janis Joplin'' fallen down between her bed and the wall, stiffed by an overdose; [[Jimi Hendrix]], supposedly suffocated by his vomit in narcotic swoon; [[Marc Bolan]] wrapped around a tree.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>[[Biography|Frank Zappa]] is dead. The obituaries have been published. The ones I read were full of peculiar caveats and qualifications. Despite Zappa's this and despite Zappa's that, he was someone, well, relatively important, even quite, even very. A mass of contradictions, he was wise and he was foolish, conformist and outrageous, Italo-Armenio-Californian freak-businessman, condescended to by Cockneys, taken seriously by Czechs and the American State Department. I read, too, about cultists visiting the tomb of [[Jim Morrison]] in Pere Lachaise. I knew Jim Morrison slightly, saw a bit of him, not long before he blew a gasket getting into a hot bath. Most of the dead popstars courted their own deaths: ''Janis Joplin'' fallen down between her bed and the wall, stiffed by an overdose; [[Jimi Hendrix]], supposedly suffocated by his vomit in narcotic swoon; [[Wikipedia:Marc Bolan|Marc Bolan]] wrapped around a tree.</blockquote>
 
<div align=right>–[[Germaine Greer]] in ''[[Frank was the Real Thing living in a Nightmare]]''</div>
 
<div align=right>–[[Germaine Greer]] in ''[[Frank was the Real Thing living in a Nightmare]]''</div>
  
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Latest revision as of 07:02, 10 September 2021

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American blues-influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter with a distinctive voice. Joplin performed on four albums recorded between 1966 and 1970 – two as the lead singer of San Francisco's Big Brother and The Holding Company,[1] and two released as a solo artist. Joplin was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.

References to Zappa

Zappa and Joplin once went to bed together. He later referenced her in We're Turning Again.

IT: Who is your new manager?

Z: Bennett Glotzer. He used to manage Procol Harum, Janis Joplin, Blood, Sweat & Tears.
IT: Is management a problem for you?

Z: It's a problem for the manager.

–From interview in IT, No7, 1977 March: Zappa

Frank Zappa is dead. The obituaries have been published. The ones I read were full of peculiar caveats and qualifications. Despite Zappa's this and despite Zappa's that, he was someone, well, relatively important, even quite, even very. A mass of contradictions, he was wise and he was foolish, conformist and outrageous, Italo-Armenio-Californian freak-businessman, condescended to by Cockneys, taken seriously by Czechs and the American State Department. I read, too, about cultists visiting the tomb of Jim Morrison in Pere Lachaise. I knew Jim Morrison slightly, saw a bit of him, not long before he blew a gasket getting into a hot bath. Most of the dead popstars courted their own deaths: Janis Joplin fallen down between her bed and the wall, stiffed by an overdose; Jimi Hendrix, supposedly suffocated by his vomit in narcotic swoon; Marc Bolan wrapped around a tree.

Germaine Greer in Frank was the Real Thing living in a Nightmare

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